Posted on: 20 Mar 2026
A data-driven look at the decade-long transformation in selective college admissions In 2015, ten colleges in the United States admitted fewer than one in ten applicants. Stanford, Harvard, and the other usual suspects. By 2024, that number had nearly tripled to 28, and the newcomers included schools that, just a decade earlier, had been admitting […]
Posted on: 19 Mar 2026
The MyCAA Scholarship — formally the My Career Advancement Account Scholarship — is the Department of Defense’s flagship education benefit for military spouses. It provides up to $4,000 in tuition assistance ($2,000 per fiscal year) to pursue licenses, certifications, or associate degrees in portable career fields at accredited institutions. As of October 1, 2024, the […]
Posted on: 18 Mar 2026
The median annual wage for all U.S. workers was $49,500 in May 2024, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics. Workers with a bachelor’s degree earned a median of $1,493 per week in 2024, compared to $899 for workers with only a high school diploma — a weekly gap of $594 that compounds into roughly […]
Posted on: 16 Mar 2026
A decade of record financial aid has barely moved the needle on economic diversity at the nation’s most selective schools In 2015, about 16.5 percent of first-year students at America’s most selective colleges received a federal Pell Grant—the primary marker of low-income status in higher education, generally awarded to families earning less than roughly $60,000 […]
Posted on: 13 Mar 2026
Every college campus has a hidden curriculum that never appears in any syllabus. It is the curriculum of who you eat lunch with, who you study with, who you end up talking to at a party you almost did not attend. It is the web of friendships, casual and close, accidental and deliberate, that students […]
Posted on: 11 Mar 2026
Providence is a not-for-profit Catholic health system serving the Western United States through 51 hospitals and more than 1,000 clinics across Alaska, California, Montana, New Mexico, Oregon, Texas, and Washington. With approximately 120,000 caregivers (Providence’s term for all employees, clinical and non-clinical alike), the system is the third-largest Catholic non-profit health system in the country […]
Posted on: 09 Mar 2026
LSU Online is the shared online education platform for the Louisiana State University (LSU) system, delivering more than 150 fully online degree programs and certificates from multiple LSU institutions under one enrollment experience. The platform draws programs from LSU Baton Rouge (the flagship R1 research campus), LSU Shreveport (LSUS), LSU Alexandria (LSUA), and LSU Eunice […]
Posted on: 09 Mar 2026
So you’ve decided (or you’re seriously considering) taking a gap year. Maybe you’re burned out after years of pushing through an increasingly high-stakes academic grind. Maybe a rare opportunity landed in your lap. Maybe you’re just not ready, and you’re honest enough to admit it. Whatever the reason, the next question is the one that […]